interesting facts

[willyable]

38% of Doctors in America are Indians.

12% of Scientists in America are Indians.

36% of NASA employees are Indians.

34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians

28% of IBM employees are Indians

17% of INTEL employees are Indians

13% of XEROX employees are Indians

India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization

Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today?

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

India is the world's largest democracy.

Grammar constitutes one of India's greatest contributions to Western philology. Panini, the Sanskrit grammarian, who lived between 750 and 500 BC, was the first to compose formal grammar through his Astadhyai.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

[Jewel]

That's interesting, but as for the first few statistics, what is considered Indian? There are many different types of interpretations of the word, and these types of interpretations often lead to a bias.

[hunter_wesley]

That would really change the way I look at Indians!

[beach-loving-guy]

Jewel is right. The term "Indians" is used to describe the inhabitants of India and the Native American Indians.

[Tourismzone]

Very interesting facts indeed.

[robert]

This is quite interesting to see how Indians has its perimeter broaden all over the world in different areas and expertise. This is good to see how old civilization has maintain to gain the recognition all over the world.

[cooldude]

Well said buddy , i am and indian and i am roud to be Indian.... India have world's most growing business industory.....

[barsa]

I didn’t know that.

[triplandia]

Now I know....

[amangarg]

Interesting Facts

Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?

Vinod Khosla

Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)?

Vinod Dham


Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?

Sabeer Bhatia

We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives. There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

You may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

01. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

02. India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented ‘zero.’

03. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

04. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

05. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

06. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

07. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

08. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.

09. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in India.

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Aman Garg

[simjoneslk]

Oh these are some wonderful facts and I admit these were hardly known to me. Now I get the feeling this fabulous country ought to be visited by me at some point of time. Presently my desire to visit Malaysia is more than anything else but getting to know these details is bound to make me interested to visit India in the coming years and I will see that it happens.

[bhp]

Wooo!!.. thats the great list.
You have provided really a good information..

Thanks..

[amanu]

Interesting Facts!!!! Liked It

THX

[kanchan]

Nice Post , Thanks for sharing.

[Welch]

Wow,

Great, Yes, I know Indians are the cleverest people of the world, They are very hardworkers,

It is great to see the proof there guys, Really superb to read this informative post and the great replies,

Cheers,